The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-24

odious discrimination, to be suppressed
at once by law.-St. Paul Pioneer-PreSs.
THE american Mdgdzjne advises peo-
pie who are afraid of impure water at
summer resorts to procure an ounce
vial of saturated solution of perman-
! ganate of potash, which any druggist
will prepare for few cents. Put half
dozen drops into a glass of drinking
water and if it turns brown in an hour
it is unfit to drink. If not, it is not es-
pecially harmful. This may save a
DOCTORS bill.
SENATOR FRYE, who has just re-
turned from Europe, says Mr.. Blaine is
in frst-rate health and does not talk
about nomination next year. Mean
while the democratic and mugwump
papers, with display of sorrowful
anxiety that would draw tears from the
eyes of a crocodile, are pleading that
Mr.. Blaine's nomination would be a
dreadful thing for the republicans. Such
disinterestednes is rare thing in
politics.
THE mugwumps, at least part of
them, are inclined to support Grover
Cleveland in spite of his sacrifice of
civil service reform and the failure of
his administration to carry out its re-
form pledges. Much is lost; but they
meet it in the spirit of the young doc
tor, called in for critical and delicate
family service. who sadly admitted that
! ho bod 1nof hath I,,t
|" still hoped to save the old man. y
Philadelphia Press.
OF course it would be an excellent
thing to have all railroad bridges, big
and little, built of stone, as demanded
by number of our esteemed contem-
poraries. 1t would also be an excellent
thing to have all roads double-tracked =,
steel-railed and stone ballasted: but if
these desirable conditions had been in
sisted on from the start the railroad sys-
tenn of the United States would not
have reached the Mississippi river vet
Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE convention of the union labor
party in New York, last week, nomi-
mated state ticket headed by Henry
George for secretary of state, and
adopted lengthy platform, which was
largely made up of disclaimers of eX-
IRENE socialist ideas, such as forcible
distributions of wealth and destroying
existing ownership of land. The
socialists were excluded from the con-
vention and now threaten to organize
a new party in opposition to the labor
organization.
THE last weeks Judge had a striking
cartoon representing George William
Curtis in herd of swine, most of
whom bear the faces and names of
President Cleveland's cabinet, the fat
test one being Cleveland himself, with
his back turned to the prodigal The
portraits are all striking, except in the
case of Higgins, of whom there is a
rear view. A tub labeled " Patron
age " is in the central foreground, out
of which little pigs labeled Partisan ="
and even " Offensive Partisan - are
feeding.
THE st. Johnsbury Republican ex-
presses these "heretical sentiments :"
regarding the complaints of unjust dis
ordinations by railroads:
The alleged grievances are, in our humble
| opinion, largely imaginary. If our Vermont
! farmers would cultivate their home markets
I and repeal the iniquitous law taxing mort
! gagged real estate they would be sure to
| prosper. In raising farm products for ship
| ment to Boston or New York Vermont
never can compete with the West, and it is
| folly to think of it for a moment But if
! our farmers would raise the garden stuff for
which there is an abundant and unlimited
| demand in all our towns and large villages
! if they would devote themselves to the
manufacture of gilt-edged butter and cheese;
| if they would make a speciality of horses or
! cows or hogs, as some of them have of
| Merino sheep; if, in short, they would look
the situation in the face and make the best
of it they would make money and the coun.
try would blossom like rose
THE coroner's jury in the railroad
disaster at Chatsworth, Ill.,, returned
verdict charging the section boss with
gross criminal negligence in leaving fires
burning near the track, and mildly GEN.
sured the railroad company for not hav-
ing the track patrolled all the evening.
The theory of incendiarism was not es-
| laDllSneu, ana lne testimony concern
| ing the cause of the disaster was very
conflicting. The statements of sensa-
tional correspondents and from other
sources have been puzzling to the pub
lie, but they may be accounted for in
part at least by the natural desire of
the railroad management to evade re-
sponsibility and the equally strong de-
sire of friends of the victims of the ac-
cident to make out as strong case
against the railroad as possible to aid
them in recovering damages.
! THERE is an ancient and not I'M
classical essay which contains this
maxim: Truth and integrity have all
the advantages of appearance and
many more" In this age and in the
presence of the civil service reformers
the value of this maxim may be ques-
toned upon recent experience. Mr..
Curtis, as reformer and politician, is a
sad example and an obstacle to faith in
the soundness of the writer's PROPOSE
ton. First of all, he claims a right to
dabble in politics, and, at the same
time, to scorn and abuse politicians
not for what they do, but for the fact
that they are politicians. He sneers at
partisans, and yet he supports the chief